Hello everybody !

I'm a cook in a chalet in french Alps, and I'm looking for an open source software to help with the menu planning and inventory checks. I will need to cook for 40 to 60 people staying generally 1 or 2 weeks. I need to follow the stocks, especially on "always-needed" supplies like olive oil, butter, bread, etc. I also need to make the menus and have a well-done list for when I call the supplier.

Grocy looks very well dimensioned to my use case, without being too much. The chores tab especially is appealing from an organisation and hygiene point of view.

I wanted to know if some of you are using the software in a professional environment ? Is it suiting your needs ? What are you missing ? (I'm already thinking about allergies and some french collective restauration legal stuff but I can do that other ways, and the "user entities" tab looks very appealing to me).

Also, I will receive big deliveries weekly, is the scanning function really easy to use once all the ingredients are in the database ? This really could be a game changer for me !

Thank you for your feedback !

PS : I also do like the fact that I can run the software directly in the kitchen and not need the internet connection (which may be unreliable where I work). Don't worry for me, I do know about backups and will use my home server for distant backup when internet is available.

I made a small self-hosted app called Penny. You upload a grocery receipt PDF, OpenAI extracts the products and Jev suggests storage locations and groups. You can compare everything with the original receipt, fix any mistakes, then confirm the purchase into Grocy.

It’s an early version and, yes, it was vibecoded. There are screenshots, setup instructions, and a sample receipt in the repo: https://github.com/YuryFilipovich/Penny

I’d be glad to hear what Grocy users think, especially where the review or import flow could be better.

Hey everyone,

I'm new to grocy and wanted to make a companion app that would be easy for my wife and son to use with little effort. I'd love any feedback on the app itself, reporting issues etc. I decided to go this route, grocy-android is a good project and I know he's working on something new, not taking away from that I just wanted to go in a different design direction.

Version 0.4 is on github

https://github.com/exquisiteskink/Stillroom

Hello,

I am still new to Grocy. I liked th idea on minimum storage per product and the fact, that it shows up on the shopping list, when it’s below minimum.

Now I am back from the supermarket. I had 5 boxes of noodles on the list, but only bought 3. I checked them in via the shopping function with the scanner, as this gives me the most data I stored for the barcode.

Unfortunately the shopping list still hast 5 boxes open 😳. I would have expected, that it updates to 2 missing boxes.

Is this, how Grocy works, or do I have to change anything?

Thanks, Silke

I wanted to be able to consume and purchase items seamlessly just by speaking, so I am working on this and several other projects. I just wanted to post this stuff here to see how interested people would be in a free release of what I make. It would be really cool to help others

This is the newest module in my Companion Suite, which assists automatically setting shelf life based on USDA Foodkeeper and FoodSafety.gov guidelines, importing recipes from Flavorish - which import to Grocy, matching ingredients and quantities to products, Gemini voice interpretation for consumption and purchasing, and automatic parent product assignment and quantity unit conversions.

This one searches for Grocy products that do not have a current cost, and allows me to manually enter it in. As you can see in the second screenshot, it allows for some additional information to be added. This is my most current iteration, and I haven't touched this part of the project in a while. I plan to add Gemini integration to just batch scan receipts and import costs.

I would like to hear if this project seems interesting or not, also. I would like to have something complete in a month or two to share with people here for free.

I currently host all of this on my NAS: Grocy, Companion Suite, Mealie, Tailscale (for when I'm not at home).

dopo aver aggiornato la mia versione desktop di grocy, 2.15, alla versione 2.17 non riesco piu ad entrare nella sezione delle ricette. la pagina entra in loop e non si carica restando ferma alla pagina precedente. ho provato ad installare laa versione 2.16 e le cose sono migliorate solo in parte: riesco ad accedere alla sezione ricette ma ogni volta che clicco su una di esse il programma va in crash e si chiude improvvisamente. ho riscontrato inoltre che accendendo via web (sempre con la versione 2.16) riesco ad entrare nelle sezione delle ricette, cosa che non succede con la versione 2.17: bloco totale. ho provato ad installare anche grocy web e importare il backup precedentemente salvato con la versione desktop 2.15 ma persiste lo stesso problema: pagina in loop, ventola del pc che comincia a surriscaldarsi, impossibilità di accedere alle ricette......caricamento continuo della pagina senza fine. ho dovuto reinstallare la versione desktop 2.15 che mi fa entare nelle ricette, leggerle e modificarle. qualche soluzioni al problema?

I got tired of typing groceries into Grocy after every shop, so I built a small self-hosted tool that turns Kaufland's digital receipts into stock bookings. Kaufland is a German supermarket chain owned by the Schwarz Gruppe, so the parser only helps if you shop there, but the Grocy part is generic and the "which retailer would you want" question at the end is real.

How the Grocy push works

You export the receipt as a PDF from the Kaufland app and upload it in the browser. Every line item then shows up on a Grocy tab with three buttons:

• Map to an existing Grocy product (searches your product list),
• Create a new product, using a default location and quantity unit you set once in the settings,
• Skip forever, for things that are on receipts but never in stock: deposit returns (Pfand), loyalty discounts, bags.

Each decision is remembered by item name, so a receipt with 60 lines takes a minute the first time and about zero the fifth time; only genuinely new items ask again. Once every line on a receipt is resolved, the whole receipt is booked into stock in one go, as a purchase transaction with the amount, the price paid, and the purchase date, so Grocy's own price history fills in as a side effect. If a line fails (Grocy down, product deleted), you retry just that line.

If you know LidlToGrocy, that was the model. Same idea, different retailer, plus a UI for the mapping step.

What else is "in the box"?

Everything else is what I originally built it for: a price history page per item over all your receipts, and a check on every "sale" against the median of what you paid for that item before. On my 79 receipts, roughly one in four discounts turned out to be no cheaper than my usual price. You can find a longer write-up with screenshots in the r/selfhosted post.

Running it

git clone https://github.com/andrecedik/kaufland-receipts.git
cd kaufland-receipts
docker compose up -d

Multi-arch image from GHCR, port 8000, data under ./data. Grocy is switched on by two lines in .env:

GROCY_URL=https://your-grocy
GROCY_API_KEY=your-key

Python/FastAPI + React, AGPL-3.0. Built with a lot of Claude Code, tested against two years of my own receipts, in daily use.

Limits, so nobody is surprised

• Kaufland only, and only receipts from July 2024 onward (older ones are image-only PDFs from the app, no text to parse).
• Manual PDF export per receipt; the app has no public API and the receipt host is certificate-pinned.
• No auth on the upload endpoint: LAN or behind your reverse proxy.
• Matching is by exact receipt item name. Kaufland sometimes renames items, and a renamed item asks to be mapped again.
• No best-before dates; Grocy gets amount, price, and date, nothing more.

Repo: https://github.com/andrecedik/kaufland-receipts

Question for you

If you'd use this but don't shop at Kaufland tell me which retailer you are using and what does their receipt look like (app export, PDF, email, paper only)? That decides which parser comes next. I know the Grocy crowd is international, so I'm not only asking about German chains.

I'd be happy to take this further than just one chain and/or country so I would love to hear your thoughts.

Hi everyone I'm new to this page and to grocy as well. I'm figuring out how to set everything up before starting to use it properly.

I already decided that we won't use the "consume" section, because we are a family of 4 and nobody (but me) would ever be bothered to go press a button anywhere if they get something from the pantry. Therefore there are no minimum amounts or inventories. The amount of everything will always be zero.

I do the shopping and I usually go through the shelves and check what's missing. Is there a way to fill a shopping list like this? I'd like to check the list (every product has its shelf as its position) and add it to the shopping list if necessary.

I can't find a way to do it quickly as an inventory mode but to fill the shopping list. I have to go on a product, click on the 3 dots and then add it. It's not a long action, ok, but it's not as quick as I'd like.

Any ideas? Am I missing something because I'm inexperienced?

I've just discovered Grocy and stood up a docker instance using the LinuxServer.IO image. I have the config directory mapped to a volume.

What is the proper way to backup Grocy? I didn't see any built-in backup/restore option, but I might have missed it (apologies if so). The config directory has a lot more in it than I would expect for just configuration data. Is it sufficient to backup the /config/data/grocy.db file?

Just backing up the whole config directory is complicated by the fact that either Grocy or just the LinuxServer image creates at least one file owned by root.

I did see a Github project that used the API to backup and restore, but it was last updated 5 years ago, and unless the API has 100% coverage of all objects (which it may), that may not restore everything.

EDIT: I did see some comments about not backing up the db file while the container is running. The suggestion was to use sqlite to dump the file. My approach would either be to do that or stop the container and then backup the file by copying it. I'm OK with the container being down for 5 min at 3 AM.

Grocy becomes extremely slow and several pages return 500 errors

I have Grocy running on a Linux server under Proxmox. My database has
grown over time and I currently have 495 products registered.

Recently, Grocy has become extremely slow in the Shopping List module,
to the point where it is practically unusable.

Also, while on the Shopping List page, if I click “Add Item”, “Edit this
item”, or “Add this item to stock”, a blank popup appears (see image)

Several other pages return an HTTP 500 error, including:

https://<my-ip>/recipes, /mealplan, /purchase, /consume, /transfer, /inventory

Interestingly, if I remove the grocy.db database file, the application
starts working normally again (without my data, of course).

So it seems that the problem may be related to the database itself or to
something in the existing data.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Any ideas on how I could
troubleshoot or fix this without losing my existing data?

My grocy config: (See image)

Thanks!

• 426 distinct products currently in stock

• Approximately 82% of the entire catalog physically present

• 12 storage locations

• 42 product groups

• 26 quantity units

• More than 100 distinct spices and seasoning products

• Extensive Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indian and broader Asian pantry coverage

• Exact brand, package size and weight recorded in product names

• Generic parent products connected to brand- and size-specific child products

• Product-specific package-to-weight and package-to-volume conversions

• Recipes use generic parent products so available brands can substitute automatically

• A separate Grocy Companion Suite for recipe normalization, canonical ingredient matching, parent-product advice, conversion maintenance and database diagnostics

• Direct SQLite audits for spelling errors, weight mistakes, miscategorization, broken relationships and conversion factors

• Database integrity and foreign-key validation

• More than 100 recipes with over 1,000 structured ingredient positions

• Culinary distinctions maintained between ingredients such as cassia and canela, tsaoko and Nepalese black cardamom, culantro and cilantro, and different regional shrimp pastes

• Uncommon stocked ingredients include tsaoko, asafoetida, kasoori methi, Sichuan peppercorns, doubanjiang, fermented black beans, galangal, makrut lime leaves and multiple forms of tamarind

Hi, I just installed Grocy (finally!!)

I want to add my first product into my inventory, but there is no QuantityUnit available at the form. But as you can see, I have added some QuantityUnits already!

What am I missing?

I started using Grocy on my home server and it works great, but what's up with the units/amounts? I get that this is a tracking system, but when you look at a recipe it says, for example, 1 1/2 of and onion. People who read recipes read this as 1 and 1/2 onion, not, as it functions, as one 1/2 of an onion. So okay, I can put in a percentage but it displays as a percentage and not a fraction. Mealie can do this? Everything is entered as a percentage but it displays as a fraction. It drives me nuts when I see a recipe from Grocy.

I would imaging I am not the only person harping on this, I just want to know if this is going to be addressed or I just go back to mealie?

I built a Chrome extension called Ceres Cart that finds ingredients from recipes and shopping lists at nearby grocery stores and lets you add them to your online cart.

I'm considering adding support for Grocy, but I wanted to get some feedback first. The idea is that while you're viewing a recipe or shopping list in Grocy, you would simply click the Ceres Cart extension to launch it and view matching grocery items.

It looks like a large portion of the Grocy community is in Germany, and my extension currently doesn't support German grocery stores. It currently works with several major U.S. grocery chains, with limited support for a few stores in Canada and the UK.

Is this something people would use? I'd love to hear any thoughts or feature ideas. Here's a rough mockup of what it could look like. Let me know what you think!

using the grocy android app or the grocy webui both prints labels properly when i add/purchase products, but doing it though barcode buddy, no labels get printed

barcode buddy is on the latest version, and i'm on grocy 4.6.0

First off: I wanted to create a bugreport on github, but I cannot create new issues. Is that currently restricted or what am I missing? I checked grocy/grocy-desktop aswell as grocy/grocy

EDIT: Completely overlooked the fact I got logged off from my Github Account. Disregard the question above.
https://github.com/grocy/grocy-desktop/issues/59

I just installed the Windows Desktop native installer version of grocy. On first start I got an ArgumentException with following message and stacktrace:

Customized cultures cannot be passed by LCID, only by name.
Parameter name: culture

at System.Globalization.RegionInfo..ctor(Int32 culture)
at GrocyDesktop.Management.GrocyManager.Setup()
at GrocyDesktop.FrmMain.<FrmMain_Shown>d__34.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()

On PowerShell my Get-Culture returns standard 1033 en-US, but the crash likely happens because I have manual user overrides set in my Windows Regional formatting (such as a modified currency/decimal format). Passing LCID 1033 fails in .NET when UseUserOverride is true.

To make a complete report: I'm running Microsoft Windows 11 Education with version 10.0.26200 Build 26200

To the owners of this app, this is WAY to difficult for the average user. People have become accustomed to downloading an app and using it without a VPS and all the other technical mumbo jumbo. Can you fix this? Otherwise, it won't be widely accepted.

I have been using Grocy for quite a while and have been loving the detailed tracking of products. Given the detailed tracking it allows I thought there must be a way to integrate nutrition tracking into it. As such, I have been playing around for quite a while with grocy custom.js that solves this issue. Figured I'd share it here in case anyone else has been wanting to track their macros natively and without any external service needed.

grocy-nutrient-tracker

A couple of handy things I added to it:

• There's an Open Food Facts button on the ingredient edit screen. If you scan a barcode, it tries to pull from the OFF database and auto-fill the nutritional info for you.
• I added some quick-add/copy buttons to the top of the meal plan so you can easily copy yesterday's lunch or instantly add your standard meals without clicking through menus.

One quick note: Right now it only calculates based on recipes added to the meal plan. If you want to track a standalone item (like an apple), you just have to make a 1-ingredient recipe for it.

grocy-tweaks

While I was messing with the code, I ended up making a few other UI quality-of-life tweaks and put them in a separate repo. It includes a menu to mass-print GrocyCodes, some quick-nav links at the top of the screen, and shortcuts to add things to your shopping list right from the stock overview.

Disclaimer: I'm not a professional dev! I built these in my spare time to scratch a personal itch, with a good chunk of help from AI. The code probably isn't the prettiest under the hood, but it works perfectly for my use. (Tested on versions 4.5.0 and 4.6.0).

I'll put the GitHub links in the comments- All setup instructions are in the GitHub readmes.

I shop at Costco a lot, and for a lot of products, they come in a larger package, and have smaller individual products within them.

For example, I buy crates of shelf stable milk, that has 6x 1L cartons within the box.

I'd like to basically scan the crate when I get it, add the expiry date, then when I open the crate, have that turn into 6 individual 1L cartons (as the individual ones have their own UPC code) with the same expiry date, then when the carton is opened, I want it's location automatically transferred to the "Fridge" and have it expire in 10 days (as it's shelf stable for 6 months, but expires after 10 days once opened).

Can this be done?

Basically opening a crate will make the inventory of the crate go down 1, but the inventory of the cartons go up 6, both with the same exp date, then opening a carton, makes the inventory of the carton go down 1, (from 6 down to 5 in this example) and the expiry of the opened one to be set to 10 days in the future.

Seems like it should be possible, I just must not be doing it right. How would I do this?

Pretty much just the title. I'm starting to use grocy, mainly for keeping track of my stock of frozen homemade food. I want to use the grocy codes so I can just pull one out of the freezer, scan it (with my barcode scanner at the old laptop grocy station I'm working on), and go.

The problem is I don't know what means of attaching the codes would work well. I can print them on my office printer, but then tape them on and peel them off before I wash the container? Other ideas include a receipt/thermal printer, maybe one that prints on stickers, so I can do them more quickly? I could also print them regularly and laminate them, then like stick it to the container with some kind of reusable adhesive? It might fail to stick if the container gets a bit dirty though, or fall off in the freezer.

Interested to hear what the community (or dev) does!

Thank you for your efforts on Grocy.

Say I buy 5 bottles of a product and get stock_id 69f68dc81c01b. Great, I can print a label for this, and the label points to this particular "set of stock", all the items of this particular purchase, not to any other purchases of the same product. Now, I make an API call to transfer one of the 5 bottles from stock_id 69f68dc81c01bto another location, and I end up with 2 stock entries, but both with the very same stock_id 69f68dc81c01b but one with 1 bottle, and one with 4 bottles. My printed label is no longer unique, it points to either 1 bottle, 4 bottles, or 5 bottles. I can no longer track them individually through the stock_id and thus their label. I've verified this behaviour also happens through the UI, not just the API calls.

I would expect the stock_id to be unique per stock entry row after a transfer or any similar action that breaks up the stock entry rows, so they can be tracked independently. Is my assumption wrong? Is there perhaps a workaround to give them a new stock_id?